Format:
Online-Ressource (365 p.)
ISBN:
9780877458623
Series Statement:
Studies Theatre Hist & Culture
Content:
In this groundbreaking study, Bruce McConachie uses the primary metaphor of containment—what happens when we categorize a play, a television show, or anything we view as having an inside, an outside, and a boundary between the two—as the dominant metaphor of cold war theatergoing. Drawing on the cognitive psychology and linguistics of George Lakoff and Mark Johnson, he provides unusual access to the ways in which spectators in the cold war years projected themselves into stage figures that gave them pleasure. McConachie reconstructs these cognitive processes by relying on scripts
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 A Theater of Containment Liberalism; 2 Empty Boys, Queer Others, and Consumerism; 3 Family Circles, Racial Others, and Suburbanization; 4 Fragmented Heroes, Female Others, and the Bomb; Epilogue; Notes; Index;
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781587294471
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780877458623
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe American Theater in the Culture of the Cold War : Producing and Contesting Containment, 1947-1962
Language:
English
Keywords:
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